Summary of Mala Kacenberg's Mala's Cat

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I was born into an observant Jewish family in Tarnogród, Poland. My father, Yitzchak Szorer, left for Uruguay on a business venture in the early 1930s. He returned to Tarnogród two years later, and began a business leasing fruit orchards. We were never rich, but we managed to exist on the profits of those fruit.
#2 I enjoyed life to the fullest, never expecting more from it than my parents could afford to give me. I was always grateful for what I had. I loved playing with the pebbles that lined the bottom of the Nitka River, and I became an expert at it.
#3 In 1936, severe hailstorms ruined the crops in my town, and the local economy suffered. The situation was not always enough money for my family, but we still had to make our clothes last for a long time.
#4 I can still see the sad look on my mother’s face as she said goodbye to her son every morning. We could not complain to the police, since we were afraid of them too.

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• Jews

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669355038
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

I was born into an observant Jewish family in Tarnogród, Poland. My father, Yitzchak Szorer, left for Uruguay on a business venture in the early 1930s. He returned to Tarnogród two years later, and began a business leasing fruit orchards. We were never rich, but we managed to exist on the profits of those fruit.

#2

I enjoyed life to the fullest, never expecting more from it than my parents could afford to give me. I was always grateful for what I had. I loved playing with the pebbles that lined the bottom of the Nitka River, and I became an expert at it.

#3

In 1936, severe hailstorms ruined the crops in my town, and the local economy suffered. The situation was not always enough money for my family, but we still had to make our clothes last for a long time.

#4

I can still see the sad look on my mother’s face as she said goodbye to her son every morning. We could not complain to the police, since we were afraid of them too.

#5

As the war continued to go badly for the Jews, my family’s situation became dire. We were reduced to extreme poverty, and we could not even afford to buy the much-needed eiderdowns. We made our own eiderdowns, which added physical warmth and comfort to the freezing Polish winter.

#6

I had many interests as a child, including school, and I loved it. I was always top of my class, and my parents were very proud of me. I was also very disciplined, and did not waste what little money I had.

#7

I was very fond of the farm life, and I enjoyed looking after the cows. I loved to sing, but others were not so appreciative of my musical talents. It was only on occasions such as these that I could indulge myself.

#8

The German invasion of Poland began on August 23, 1939, and I decided to go back home to be with my family. I did not fully understand what war meant, but I knew that many soldiers die in wars.

#9

I was eventually sent to a ghetto in Tarnogrod, where I was forced to sell off my family’s possessions to survive. I began thinking about ways to find food for my starving family, and eventually decided to steal food from the Nazis.

#10

The Nazis eventually forbade the synagogue from holding services or assembly, and it was converted into a stable for German cavalry horses. My brother and I decided to leave the house to beg for food from farmers or soldiers in the surrounding villages, but we were spotted by two mounted SS officers, who shot at us.

#11

I was saved from the death march, but my family was not. I had to become a soldier to save myself and my family. I removed my Star of David, and began wearing it when I went home to bring food for my family.

#12

I was so lonely that I began to think that the cat, with her soft eyes, looked at me as if she understood my suffering. I nicknamed her Malach, which means angel in Hebrew, and I imagined that she was a real angel watching over me.

#13

I was once taken to the Gestapo headquarters, where I was asked to wash cars with freezing water in sub-zero temperatures. I was not afraid, and I was determined to take a big risk. I was not going to wash Gestapo cars any more.

#14

I was eventually able to escape the ghetto, but not before being given a loaf of bread and a packet of sweets by the German officer who was in charge of it. I was able to escape death by starvation by choosing to leave the ghetto with my cat.

#15